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...launched directly into Iraq from the west, Britain's 1st Armored Division mounted a highly mobile battle against Saddam's best forces, the Republican Guard. British soldiers are no strangers to desert warfare, of course: aided by the heroics of T.E. Lawrence -- the legendary Lawrence of Arabia -- they helped oust the Ottoman Turks from the Bedouin homeland in World War I and later defeated Rommel's Afrika Korps in the Libyan desert. One tank unit that punched into Iraq last week was the 7th Armored Brigade, World War II's famous Desert Rats, who helped drive the Germans...
...blasts signaled not only an intensification of the organization's drive to oust the British from Northern Ireland but also a return to the tactics of the 1970s when civilian targets, including train and subway stations, were hit indiscriminately. That strategy was abandoned after a 1983 car bomb outside Harrods department store killed six people and caused a wave of revulsion against the I.R.A. But authorities fear that frustrated hard-liners have once again decided that bloody activity on the mainland is a far more effective way to prove that British rule in Ireland is untenable...
PRESIDENT Bush got what he wanted this weekend--Congressional authorization to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait by military force. Though his margin of victory was anything but decisive (just five votes in the Senate), the President has accomplished his aim of presenting a hard-line "united front" against Saddam Hussein...
That worthy objective may never be achieved. The rebel factions have no political program; the only principle that unites them is their hatred of Siad Barre and their determination to oust him. Their organizations are completely clan-based and are divided by hundreds of years of intramural fighting. With no restraining influences from abroad and the superpowers attending to other concerns, Somalia's future is likely to be sadly similar to its bloody past...
...appointed to teach theology under church auspices. For good measure, Uta Ranke-Heinemann was a convert from Protestantism, the daughter of a West German President and the wife of a first cousin of Poland's Catholic Primate. Nonetheless, in 1987 the German hierarchy forced the University of Essen to oust Ranke-Heinemann from her Catholic professorship and give her another teaching post that would not imply any church endorsement. Her sin: in defiance of Christian teaching, Ranke-Heinemann had concluded that Mary was not a virgin when she gave birth to Jesus...